FULL AREA LISTING HERE: Treasurer seeks recipients for ‘Wyoming Windfall’

Posted: Friday, Feb 22nd, 2013From our staff

Wyoming Windfall 2013

EVANSTON — The unclaimed property division of the Wyoming State Treasurer’s office is seeking several area businesses and individuals who are due money as a result of unclaimed checking and savings accounts, insurance benefits, stock and other funds, wages, refunds, deposits and overpayments,.

According to a release from the office, this year’s list totals about $3.4 million due to about 10,200 residents.

The “Wyoming Windfall” program, the release said, has been successful in returning more than $27.7 million to about 43,300 owners since Wyoming’s unclaimed property law was passed in 1993.

Any person on the list — or those who are heirs of persons or their relatives — can call the unclaimed property division at (307) 777-5590 or write to Wyoming Unclaimed Property Division, 2515 Warren Ave., Suite 502, Cheyenne, WY 82002.